Clark Richert, left, a Kansas University graduate who co-founded Drop City, stands outside a geodesic dome that served as a kitchen for the commune in this 1965 photo. At right is fellow Drop City ...

On May 3, 1965, an artist named Clark Richert became part owner of a six-acre goat pasture in Las Animas County, a few miles northeast of Trinidad. His former college buddy Gene Bernofsky wrote the ...

“Drop City,” a documentary about what was billed as the first rural commune when it opened near Trinidad in 1965, will be shown Saturday at Trinidad State Junior College. “It was the first and most ...

The Complex, pictured here in 1966, was the most ambitious structure at Drop City. It was based on the Zome, a stretched zonahedral form that consisted of three 30-foot connected domes. It was ...

Drop City, an artist community that set a new standard for design and environmentally sustainable living, was conceived through an exercise in artistic mischief — or rather, some undergrads started ...

A book written today that’s set in 1970s America — especially a 1970 redolent with the funk of pot smoke and the fug of hippies living in close communal quarters — is never only about 1970. It’s about ...